“This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1319303
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/2818048.2819992
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- CSCW '16: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing
- First page
- 491
- Volume
- 2016-Feb
- Issue
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- ISSN
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 22
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The paper provides an ethnographic study of the legibility of sensor data in a domestic context. The conference acceptance rate was 25%. The paper’s significance lies in the recognition that sensor data does not actually reveal fine-grained patterns of behaviour, but is indexical to them and thus requires ‘articulation’. The paper draws attention to the limitations of Big Data analytics and the potential risk of misrepresentation (rather than privacy violation) occasioned by widespread sensing. It fostered a range of publications unpacking the notion of ‘data work’ in different contexts.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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